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Motherlode : a mosaic of Dutch wartime experience / Carolyne Van Der Meer.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.V363 M67 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Der Meer, Carolyne, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Life writing series
- Life writing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Van Der Meer, Carolyne, 1968---Family--Literary collections.
- Van Der Meer, Carolyne.
- History.
- Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Literary collections.
- Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch--Literary collections.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Dutch.
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfred Laurier University Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience is Carolyne Van Der Meer's creative reinterpretation through short stories, poems, and essays of the experiences of her mother and other individuals who spent their childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland or were deeply affected by wartime in Holland. The book documents the author's personal journey as she uncovers her mother's past through their correspondence and discussion and through research in the Netherlands. Motherlode also considers mother-daughter relationships and the effect of wartime on motherhood. Motherlode is not about recording precise historical data; rather, it attempts to recover and interpret the complex emotions of the individuals growing up in wartime. The book is based on interviews with the author's mother and other Dutch Canadians, interviews with and letters from Canadian Jewish war veterans, and information provided by individuals with direct or indirect experience of the Dutch Resistance. The creative pieces explore onderduik (going into/being in hiding), life in an occupied country, the work of the Dutch Resistance, liberation, collective and individual cultural memory, and the way in which wartime childhoods shaped adulthood for these individuals. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Finding the Motherlode
- Journal Entry - 18 July 2010 8
- Going Home 9
- Parched 10
- Journal Entry -19 July 2010 11
- Letters from a War Child 13
- Nine Ways to Happiness in Wartime 14
- Marijke's Song 15
- Journal Entry - 20 July 2010 20
- The Poem about Hiding Jews 24
- Cat Got Your Tongue? 25
- How Do You Know? 26
- My Education 27
- Journal Entry - 21 July 2010 28
- The Librarian 30
- The Hiding Place 31
- The Hunting Game 32
- Negotiating with the SS 33
- Journal Entry - 22 July 2010 34
- Motherlode 40
- My Mother's Voice 41
- The Root Cellar 42
- The Hunger Winter, 1944-45 43
- A Conversation 45
- The Walls Have Ears 46
- Where We Hid Them 47
- Journal Entry - 22 July 2010 48
- Stimpie Stampie at the New Dorrius 51
- The Bartender 52
- The Red Boots 53
- Listening to the Radio 54
- The SS Came at Night 55
- Journal Entry - 23 July 2010 56
- Speculaas on the Prinsengracht 58
- Alarm 59
- Journal Entry - 24 July 2010 63
- 2 The Children
- The War Begins 66
- Onderduik, 1944 67
- We All Took Part 68
- The Risks He Took 69
- Learning Curve 70
- Soldier Boy 71
- Christmas Eve 1943 72
- The Beef Tongue 73
- Wool Was Hard to Get 74
- The Collection 75
- The Walnut Tree 76
- The American Soldier 77
- What Lisbeth Knows 78
- No Visible Injury 79
- God in de Hemel 80
- Bittersweet 81
- The Bouquet 82
- Liberation in Nijmegen 86
- Institut Henri Jaspar, Brussels 88
- 3 The Survivors
- Manna from Heaven 90
- A Dutch Jew Looks at the Facts 91
- Real Estate Value 93
- Riches to Rags 94
- Staas 95
- Teaching Kindergarten 96
- Accuracy 97
- Thunder and Lightning 98
- The Department Store 99
- War's Insidious Bite 100
- Altje, 1942 102
- 4 The Fighters
- The Story Wasn't True 106
- Girl in a Flowered Dress 107
- Lotte's Journey 108
- The Namesake 109
- Dear Folks, Love Ralph 110
- The Outline 111
- Homage to a Canadian Soldier 112
- Stationed in Veghel 114
- The Soldier Watches Retribution 115
- Occupation Duty 116.
- Other Format:
- Van Der Meer, Carolyne A., 1968-, author. Motherlode.
- ISBN:
- 9781771120050
- 1771120053
- OCLC:
- 852220740
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